90210 alum Annalynne McCord revealed that she is engaged to longtime love Danny Cipriani after the rugby star proposed on Christmas Day 2025.
“I cried for 10 minutes straight,” McCord, 38, told People in an interview published on Saturday, April 11. “At some point, I realized I had to answer. I said, ‘Yes, but I can’t even speak,’ and he replied, ‘That’s okay, it’s actually a good sign that you are quiet for once.’ Then, we’re all laughing.”
McCord told the outlet that she was actually considering proposing to the athlete late last year, but her sisters “strongly discouraged” her from taking that step at the time.
“It occurred to me that I should just propose to him and I told my sisters. Both really questioned this choice, and they strongly discouraged it,” she recalled. “I decided to tell him that was my plan, but then the look on his face convinced me not to, and he fessed up and told me he had plans to propose to me on our upcoming trip to Cambodia.”
Cipriani’s proposal plans ultimately changed. On Christmas Day, he encouraged McCord to join the whole family for a movie and she went off to get changed.
“I come downstairs and there are rose petals everywhere and a rose petal heart,” she revealed. “Danny, down on one knee with a ring, waiting for me to step into the heart.”
Cipriani proposed at McCord’s Los Angeles home with a 15-carat, emerald-cut diamond with seven round accent diamonds set in the band. He also arranged for her family and friends to watch the proposal over Zoom.
Us Weekly exclusively revealed in May 2024 that McCord and Cipriani were officially back together. The two originally started dating in 2016, but went their separate ways four years later.
“I wasn’t looking for it at all. It kind of found me,” she told Us about her feelings for Cipriani. “It’s the most unlikely situation ever because I was with this person on and off for four years, and we were two shadows matching the shadow of the other person.”
The two reconnected “as friends” a few years after splitting, with love blossoming once again.
“Now we’re together and it’s new, but we are both showing up for ourselves in life,” she explained. “And because we can show up for ourselves, we’re matching each other on every level and we’re having painful conversations of where we were, because they’re honest and they’re real and I wouldn’t want anything else.”
Prior to her relationship with Cipriani, McCord dated Twilight’s Kellan Lutz from 2008 to 2010 and later was with Prison Break star Dominic Purcell from 2011 to 2014. (Lutz, 41, married Brittany Gonzales in 2017 and they share two children: daughter Ashtyn Lilly, 5, and son Kasen Lane, 3. Purcell, 56, has been married to Tish Cyrus since 2023.)
